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3232Green Lizard Chooses Wilton Centre for Technology Developmenthttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/green-lizard-chooses-wilton-centre-for-technology-development/
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:01:03 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1876A multi-award winning university spin-out technology company has chosen Teesside’s Wilton Centre as its production development base, with an initial £6 million investment, creating four new full-time jobs.

Green Lizard Technologies Limited (Green Lizard), a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast, has acquired pilot plant, office and laboratory space at the Wilton Centre, Teesside’s premier science and business park, to test manufacture Epoxy Propanol (EP), also known as Glycidol, which can be used to create greener, cleaner and safer surfactants (for use in detergents and soaps), industrial paints and coatings, and speciality chemicals.

The Wilton Centre will house Europe’s first production plant for EP. At present, it is primarily manufactured in Japan, with a small amount produced in the US. Should the pilot production plant prove successful, Green Lizard and its development partners will invest some $25 million (£17 million) in a full scale production plant at Wilton, employing more than 30 people. This could open as early as 2021.

Green Lizard has developed patented, safe and sustainable technology which coverts Glycerol, a waste product from the manufacture of bio-diesel, a renewable fuel made using natural vegetable oils and fats, into EP. Glycerol is used in food production, but increasing production of bio-diesel to meet international targets has led to a glut.

Green Lizard has partnered with Malaysian company FGV, the world’s largest Crude Palm Oil producer, and with US-based Dixie Chemical to develop industrial scale manufacturing of EP from Glycerol, winning prestigious international awards in the process.

Last year (2017) the partnership won the Sustainability Award in the IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) Malaysia Awards and was highly commended in the Global IChemE Awards in the Oil and Gas section, and in January 2018 it won the Rushlight Sustainable Manufacturing & Services Award at the international awards designed to promote innovation, initiatives and the holistic environmental benefit of new technologies.

Green Lizard chose the Wilton Centre for its pilot plant and development centre for a combination of on-site facilities and partner organisations, and Teesside’s readily available skilled workforce.

Professor Martin Atkins, Green Lizard CEO and Chair of Chemical Innovation & Sustainability at Queen’s University Belfast says: “The Wilton Centre was recommended to us by the Knowledge Transfer Network and it is fantastic. In fact, there is no better place in the UK. The facilities are already here to run a test production plant 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with experienced workers.

“There is room for us to expand on site, and to a potential full production plant on the Wilton International site next door, and there are many like-minded people and companies based on-site or just down the road, with whom we are already working very closely to develop new, safer, greener coatings, surfactants and fuels.

“We are also in talks with a number of international companies, including a consortium from China, which are very interested in using our technology in their manufacturing processes. At present, we are just scratching the surface of the possibilities for our new technologies.”

Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre says: “Green Lizard is the fourth university technology company which has chosen to base its production development work at the Wilton Centre, and the third from outside the North East of England. We have all the infrastructure, facilities and supporting expertise in place to allow them to focus on their task of scaling their production processes, rather than dealing with a mountain of red tape before they can even get going.”

Stephen Brown, Senior Partner at Dodds Brown is the letting agent for the office space at the Wilton Centre. He says: “All the occupiers at the Wilton Centre benefit from on-site clustering and the presence of organisations such as NEPIC (North East of England Process Industry Cluster) and CPI (Centre for Process Innovation) to encourage and advise on partnership working and technology and process development.”

Green Lizard taking space at the 75 acre science and business park follows hard on the heels of Loughborough University spin-out company Micropore committing to the Wilton Centre for a further 10 years, and US technology company Calysta expanding its facilities.

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Further information about accommodation at the Wilton Centre is available from Claire Morton at Wilton Centre on tel. 01642 438 050, email enquiries@wiltoncentre.co.uk or from Stephen Brown at Dodds Brown on 01642 244130 or by email s.brown@doddsbrown.co.uk or via the Wilton Centre’s website – www.wiltoncentre.com.

Picture caption: Green Lizard’s new pilot production plant at the Wilton Centre.

]]>HIGH TECH COMPANY COMMITS TO A FURTHER 10 YEARS AT THE WILTON CENTREhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/high-tech-company-commits-to-a-further-10-years-at-the-wilton-centre/
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:27:33 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1869A specialist high tech company has taken a new lease on its office and laboratory space at the Wilton Centre, Teesside’s premier science and business park.

Micropore Technologies Ltd (Micropore), which has patented a membrane emulsification and encapsulation process which can used across the pharmaceutical, food, agro-chemicals, aerospace and research sectors, has committed itself to a further 10 years in its 1,300 sq ft of laboratory and office space at the Wilton Centre.

Originally a high-technology spin-out of Loughborough University, Micropore re-located from the East Midlands to the Wilton Centre, attracted by the quality of premises, and choosing Teesside for the strength of the formulation knowledge base and supply chain, employable skill base and calibre of investors.

In November 2016, the company received an investment of £270,000 from UK Steel Enterprise, the Tata Steel business-support subsidiary, and the North East Angel Fund managed by Rivers Capital Partners, in order to increase its process to industrial production level and to grow its team and customer base.

Winning the NEPIC Award for Innovation 2018 (in January 2018) for a game-changing new industrial-scale product is a significant milestone at the end of a three-year period of product development for Micropore. The company is now looking to export new products which will enable formulation companies to increase yields and improve productivity across a wide variety of market sectors, including drug delivery, personal care, flavours and fragrances and agrochemicals.

“We have strong working relationships with a portfolio of exciting and exacting clients and work confidentially with them on their novel, leading-edge formulation developments,” says Micropore Chief Executive Dai Hayward.

Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre says: “Micropore committing itself to a further 10 years at the Wilton Centre underlines its position as the North East’s premier science and business park, and follows an extremely successful few months which has seen companies of all sizes moving to the Wilton Centre, expanding their facilities, or committing to their existing space on long term leases.”

Stephen Brown, Senior Partner at Dodds Brown is the letting agent for the office space at the Wilton Centre. He says: “It’s not just the Wilton Centre’s unique combination of office, laboratory and process development space and the growing cluster of high tech and process companies which attracts tenants, but its position next to the Wilton International site, good road, rail, air and port links, and the opportunity to work in close proximity with all sizes of similar organisations from multi-nationals to individual operators.”

Micropore’s commitment at the 75 acre science and business park follows hard on the heels of US company Calysta expanding its facilities and the CPI signing a new lease on its 47,000 sq ft of accommodation.

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Further information about accommodation at the Wilton Centre is available from Claire Morton at Wilton Centre on tel. 01642 438 050, email enquiries@wiltoncentre.co.uk or from Stephen Brown at Dodds Brown on 01642 244130 or by email s.brown@doddsbrown.co.uk or via the Wilton Centre’s website – www.wiltoncentre.com.

]]>HAPPY CHRISTMAS FOR LOCAL CHILDREN AND HOMELESS PEOPLEhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/happy-christmas-for-local-children-and-homeless-people/
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 09:00:05 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1813The Wilton Centre helped to deliver a happy Christmas to local children and homeless people.

Office and laboratory occupiers at the Teesside science and business park collected 106 presents for children at EVA Women’s Refuge in Redcar and 18 shoeboxes full of small presents, plus a number of larger donations, for Middlesbrough charity’s Hugs for the Homeless Christmas initiative.

Wilton Centre management also received a large quantity of food items which were donated to Footprints in the Community’s Foodbank.

“Collecting for charities at Christmas is something we do each year, and each year I am delighted by the generosity of the people and organisations based at the Wilton Centre. We would like to thank them all for their wonderful effort on behalf of the charities,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre.

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Pictured are presents for children and homeless people under the Wilton Centre’s Christmas tree before distribution.

]]>BIOTECH COMPANY EXPANDS AT WILTON CENTREhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/biotech-company-expands-at-wilton-centre/
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:30:54 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1778A world leading biotech company has expanded its facilities at the Wilton Centre, Teesside’s premier science and business park, only a year after first moving in.

US company Calysta which has developed a new naturally produced fish and animal feed ingredient, called FeedKind® protein, has leased an additional 2,400 sq ft of office, laboratory and storage space, in addition to the two laboratories, seven offices and the production plant it took in December 2016 on a ten year lease. The new space takes Calysta’s total occupancy at the Wilton Centre to more than 29,000 sq ft, where it employs 15 people.

Calysta’s expansion comes soon after winning a prestigious global prize for the design, construction and successful launch of its new market introduction production facility for FeedKind® protein at the Wilton Centre. Calysta and partners, the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), also based at the Wilton Centre, and Otto Simon Ltd were awarded the 2017 Institution of Chemical Engineers’ Global Team Award for excellence in November 2017, beating more than 140 entries from 21 countries.

Graham Aylen, MD Calysta UK says: “The Wilton Centre provides Calysta with utilities and infrastructure on a shared resource basis enabling the company to focus on its core activities. This, coupled with the benefits of being part of a process industry cluster convinced us to choose the Wilton Centre in the first place and now to expand there.”

“We are delighted that Calysta has committed to more space at the Wilton Centre for its world-beating, highly innovative process,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre.

“It benefits, as do many of our tenants, from being located on the same complex as CPI and the process industry cluster led by NEPIC. Calysta’s success is a great example of what can be achieved by all the engineering and manufacturing expertise we have on Teesside.”

Calysta taking more space at the 75 acre science and business park follows hard on the heels of the CPI signing a new lease on its 47,000 sq ft of accommodation and the re-letting of 29,000 sq ft of office space to SABIC.

Earlier this year (2017) the Wilton Centre also signed new leases with international electrical safety training provider The Faraday Training Group for 40,000 sq ft of office and training space and with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a world leading developer and manufacturer of biologics-based medicines, for 15,000 sq ft of office and laboratory space.

Stephen Brown, Senior Partner at Middlesbrough-based Dodds Brown is the letting agent for the office space at the Wilton Centre. He says: “It’s not just the Wilton Centre’s unique combination of office, laboratory and process development space which attracts tenants, but its proximity to the Wilton International site, good road, rail, air and port links and clusters of similar organisations.”

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Further information about accommodation at the Wilton Centre is available from Claire Morton at Wilton Centre on tel. 01642 438 050, email enquiries@wiltoncentre.co.uk or from Stephen Brown at Dodds Brown on 01642 244130 or by email s.brown@doddsbrown.co.uk or via the Wilton Centre’s website – www.wiltoncentre.com.

Pictured is Calysta President and CEO Alan Shaw at Calysta’s production facility for FeedKind® protein at the Wilton Centre.

]]>ENGINEERING COMPANY EXPANDS AT TEESSIDE’S WILTON CENTREhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/engineering-company-expands-at-teessides-wilton-centre/
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:00:27 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1765A civil engineering company has taken on its first apprentice and expanded into new office space at the Wilton Centre, Teesside’s premier science and business park.

Lynas Engineers has taken 360 sq ft of serviced office space at the Wilton Centre and appointed Tom Hustwitt as an apprentice. Established in October 2016 by Rob Lynas, the company has grown quickly to a total of four experienced engineers, plus its new apprentice, taking on more office space with each new appointment.

In its first year, Lynas Engineers, which provides engineering design services for infrastructure, highways and drainage, has won work from a number of clients including Middlesbrough Council, South Tyneside Council and Linden Homes and expects to continue its rapid rate of growth next year (2018).

Mr Lynas says: “2017 has been very good for us. We’ve won some excellent clients and grown quickly and we are confident 2018 can be as good.”

Mr Lynas founded Lynas Engineers after his previous employer closed the Teesside office he was managing. He says: “I chose the Wilton Centre for my new office because it has flexible accommodation, there are no worries about IT and telephones, and there are good on-site facilities, meeting rooms and car parking.

“To be honest after I attended a couple of events there, I did not look anywhere else. It’s also home to the process industry cluster, and the base for NEPIC, so next year we hope to start doing business with some of our fellow occupiers.”

“Lynas Engineers’ success in just one year is an excellent example of how businesses can grow from one desk or a small office at the Wilton Centre,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre. “Using our serviced offices means companies can focus on doing business, not sorting out issues with their accommodation.”

Stephen Brown, Senior Partner at Middlesbrough-based Dodds Brown is the letting agent for the office space at the Wilton Centre. He says: “Wilton Centre is the one of the best office locations in Teesside for all sizes and types of organisation. In addition to excellent on-site facilities and support, it has first class transport connections, with a quick link to the A19 and the national road network.”

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It offers a range of flexible office space from individual workstations located within a spacious shared office environment, to flexible small offices, many adjacent to laboratory space, to full floors or blocks of premier office accommodation, at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Further information about accommodation at the Wilton Centre is available from Claire Morton at Wilton Centre on tel. 01642 438 050, email enquiries@wiltoncentre.co.uk or from Stephen Brown at Dodds Brown on 01642 244130 or by email s.brown@doddsbrown.co.uk or via the Wilton Centre’s website – www.wiltoncentre.com.

Each year the Teesside science and business park asks the office and laboratory workers and their employers based at its 75 acre campus, located between Middlesbrough and Redcar, to make donations of presents or food to support two charities.

Management at the Wilton Centre are collecting presents for children at the EVA Women’s Refuge in Redcar and food for Middlesbrough charity Hugs for the Homeless’ foodbank and Christmas dinner for homeless and destitute people. They are also asking for shoeboxes full of small presents for Hugs for the Homeless to give to homeless people.

Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre says: “Last year our occupiers were extremely generous. They donated almost 100 children’s presents, 26 shoeboxes, and enough food so that the foodbank had to make two special collections, so we are hoping to top that this Christmas. Donations can be left at our main reception area.”

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

The anticipated publication date of the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations is July 2018. What will be the key changes likely to be included in the BS 7671:2018.

The date is fast approaching until the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring regulations will be finalised and published. The new standard is expected to be available around 1st July 2018, with electrical contractors and electricians given a six month transition period to get up to speed with the changes. From 1st January 2019, it will then be a requirement that all electrical installations designed after this date comply with BS 7671:2018, 18th Edition (2018).

The Faraday Centre Ltd will be hosting an informative short seminar on 24th January 2018 aimed at anyone operating within the electrical industry. Our technical experts will be helping electrical contractors and electricians understand the proposed changes to BS 7671 – The 18th Edition. Faraday will provide an overview on the latest developments and updates along with training packages for those affected by the upcoming changes.

Date: Wednesday 24th January 2018

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Itinerary:

2:00-2:30om: Registration and refreshments

2:30-2:45pm: Introduction – Ian Pattinson

2:45-3:15pm: 18th Edition Wiring Regulations – Tony Jefferson

3:15-3:30pm: Q&A

3:30-3:45pm: Refreshment Break/Networking

3:45-4:15pm: 18th Edition Wiring Regulation Training – Alan Jones

4:15-4:30pm: Q&A

4:30-5:00pm: Tour of Faraday Centre facilities/Networking

Please contact training@faradaycentre.co.uk to RSVP your place or for further information about the event contact Shauna Bryan on tel. 01642 467236.

]]>Wilton Centre Raises More Than £700 For Children In Needhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/wilton-centre-raises-more-than-700-for-children-in-need/
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:10:09 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1742The Wilton Centre has raised more than £700 for this year’s BBC Children in Need Appeal.

The Teesside business and science park has supported the fund raising initiative for the past 30 years and continues each year in memory of former employee Gillian Hainton-Smith, the centre’s main Children in Need organiser and fund raiser until her sudden and untimely death some three years ago.

This year money was raised from the business and science park’s office and laboratory workers via a raffle and a competition to see who could ride a spinning bike for one kilometre the quickest.

“We would like to thank companies and individuals who donated prizes, and everyone who took part and contributed. Children in Need is a special time for us at the Wilton Centre, remembering Gill, as well as helping good causes,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre.

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Picture caption: Claire Morton (left) and Alison Evans on the spinning bikes in Wilton Centre’s Lakeside restaurant, raising money for Children in Need.

]]>Wilton Centre Raises More Than £900 For Poppy Appealhttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/wilton-centre-raises-more-than-900-for-poppy-appeal/
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:27:47 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1736The Wilton Centre has raised more than £900 for this year’s Royal British Legion’s North East Poppy Appeal.

The collection among the office and laboratory workers based at the Teesside science and business park was helped by four members of the Royal Signals, including one who played the bagpipes in the Wilton Centre’s 350 seat Lakeside restaurant.

“We would like to thank all of the more than 60 businesses based at the Wilton Centre and their people who contributed to the Poppy Appeal, and to the Royal Signals who gave up their time to help us,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre. “Our occupiers are always keen to support our charity efforts generously.”

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Picture caption: Members of the Royal Signals helped to collect money for Royal British Legion’s North East Poppy Appeal at the Wilton Centre.

]]>CPI Commits To Wilton Centre for a Further Seven Yearshttp://www.wiltoncentre.com/cpi-commits-to-wilton-centre-for-a-further-seven-years/
Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:39:30 +0000http://www.wiltoncentre.com/?p=1730The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has signed a new lease on its 47,000 sq ft of accommodation at the Wilton Centre (www.wiltoncentre.com), the largest deal at Teesside’s premier science and business park for more than 10 years.

The technology innovation centre, which has been based at the Wilton Centre for the past 13 years, has committed to a further seven year lease on its office, laboratory, pilot plant and scale up space.

More than 120 people work for CPI at the Wilton Centre, with a mission to support the UK process manufacturing industry by helping to overcome innovation challenges and developing next generation products and processes.

CPI bridges the gap between early stage concept and scalable commercial process. Early and mid-stage technologies are characterised against scale-associated risk and guided by an understanding of relevant cost contribution. Utilising its state of the art facilities and technical expertise, it helps its clients to de-risk process development. This is achieved through proof of concept testing to accelerate the commercialisation of new products and process technologies. Its multidisciplinary team has completed feasibility assessments, process development projects and piloting studies for UK, European and international clients.

“It’s not just good news for the Wilton Centre that CPI has committed to be here for the next seven years, but for all the companies and organisations which have chosen to cluster around them creating a process innovation hub. They are helping to contribute to the future success of the North East economy,” says Steve Duffield, Site Director at the Wilton Centre.

The re-letting to CPI at the 75 acre science and business park follows hard on the heels of the re-letting of 29,000 sq ft of office space to SABIC, and new leases of 40,000 sq ft of office and training space to international electrical safety training provider The Faraday Training Group, in addition to 15,000 sq ft of office and laboratory space to FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a world leading developer and manufacturer of biologics-based medicines.

Stephen Brown, Senior Partner at Dodds Brown (www.doddsbrown.co.uk) is the letting agent for the office space at the Wilton Centre. He says: “It’s not just the Wilton Centre’s unique combination of office, laboratory and process development space which attracts tenants, but its proximity to the Wilton International site, good road links and clusters of similar organisations.”

Wilton Centre is a leading, privately-owned science and business park located in the heart of Teesside just five minutes’ drive from Middlesbrough. It provides a wide range of top quality office, laboratory and pilot plant accommodation at competitive rental terms with immediate occupancy. Set in a 75 acre landscaped site, it has its own lake and boasts 1,600 free car parking spaces.

Further information about accommodation at the Wilton Centre is available from Claire Morton at Wilton Centre on tel. 01642 438 050, email enquiries@wiltoncentre.co.uk or from Stephen Brown at Dodds Brown on 01642 244130 or by email s.brown@doddsbrown.co.uk or via the Wilton Centre’s website – www.wiltoncentre.com.